Bug or feature: symbol names of global/extern variables

[Mike Stump]

On Oct 6, 2005, at 2:44 AM, Michael Veksler wrote:
> This is the wrong list for linker enhancements. You should look for
> binutils mailing lists. However "collect2" which is part of gcc and is
> called before the linker (for C++)- could also detect this and give
> the same warning. I would bet that collect2 is the wrong place for
> this enhancement because it will work only for C++, not for C.

This is wrong, collect2 is also used for C code.